The 12th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
United States Capitol (1800)
Senate President George Clinton
Senate President pro tempore William H. Crawford
George Poindexter was an American politician, lawyer, and judge from Mississippi. Born in Virginia, he moved to the Mississippi Territory in 1802. He served as United States Representative from the ne
Poindexter offered a $10 reward for the recovery of Jim, who had been trafficked from Kentucky, was "bold and rather impertinent in conversation," and whose literacy would have enabled him to forge a slave pass (Natchez Gazette, August 4, 1813)
Vintage hateration: this mock lost-and-found advertisement included a canny physical description of Poindexter ("One Cent Reward" Natchez Gazette, January 4, 1815)